515.7 miles


Finally got out the door at 9:40 am today and I drove for two hours to our first stop 150 miles away.  (Yes, I can do math.)  My sister and I swapped seats, and I slept through most of Reno and the Sierras.  At some point in Nevada, I woke up thinking I was supposed to be driving, and grabbed at the invisible steering wheel in front of me.  I'm not sure I've heard the end of it yet.

Sometime early in the afternoon, we realized that we were ahead of schedule and we were going to make it into Winnemucca around 3pm and decided to aim to go a bit further.  The next biggest city after Winnemucca is 125 miles further, Elko.

The only other Volvo on I-80 flew by at 90 mph.

Remnants of last week's wildfire off of I-80 between Winnemucca and Elko.

We stopped in Winnemucca thinking we could find some ice cream - pretty much there was only fast food and casinos.  Got to Elko at 5pm and went straight to the gas station - gas is expensive in Elko!  Even more than the East Bay - and a lot more than the gas stations along I-80 before we actually reached our destination.

Nevada is really all casinos - our hotel here has slot machines in the lobby and the main building has those crazy flashing neon lights.

Tomorrow should be a nice drive - we're going a bit further tomorrow since we're ahead of schedule.  We're skipping Park City and going through Salt Lake to Grand Junction.

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